by Robin Webb, USA TODAY

by Robin Webb, USA TODAY

Rapper Lil Wayne is finally opening up about the health crisis that put him in the hospital two weeks ago.

In a phone interview broadcast on L.A. radio station Power 106 Thursday night, Wayne (aka Weezy) said "the bad news" is he's epileptic and prone to seizures.

"This isn't my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh seizure. I've had a bunch of seizures, ya'll just never hear about them," he told DJ Felli Fell. "But this time it got real bad 'cause I had three of them in a row and on the third one, my heart rate went down to like 30%. Basically, I could've died."

The artist, whose latest album, I Am Not a Human Being II, was released Tuesday, is planning to embark on a 40-show tour starting July 5.